This workshop is a Category 1 MYP workshop. This workshop is intended for new MYP Sciences teachers. (New to IB MYP, not necessarily new to teaching)


All participants are requested to bring with them the following:

  • A usb thumb drive to share resources
  • Laptop (please ensure that your school has given you sufficient administrator rights to be able to change your IP/network settings so that you can connect to the local network onsite) – bring a power adaptor and a projector adaptor (if a Mac user)
  • Copies of MYP: From Principles into Practise & MYP Sciences Guide. (pdf or paper)
  • Online Curriculum Centre (OCC) username and password
  • Draft and current MYP Unit Plans that you are currently implementing in the classroom
  • MYP Sciences Subject Guide

Sciences Agenda


Sciences Workbook

Sciences Powerpoint Slides



IB Documents (from the OCC)






Session 1:Philosophy

Standards and practices
Perspectives for the millennium
Aims for Sciences
Discussing the challenges of developing and 
delivering an MYP unit work


Handouts for Session 1



Session 2: Written curriculum

Extend the understanding of key and related 
concepts and how they may ground 
interdisciplinary teaching and learning
Consolidate understanding of key and related 
concepts by framing a conceptual understanding of a new unit of work
Consolidate the role of MYP global contexts as they relate to both the unit and international-mindedness

Developing a statement of inquiry




Session 3: Written curriculum
Consolidate understanding of concepts and 
context as a statement of inquiry
Design appropriate inquiry questions to guide 
inquiry (factual, conceptual, debatable)
Reflect upon the implications of an inquiry- 
based approach to teaching and learning





Session 4: Assessed Curriculum

Design authentic summative assessment tasks
(GRASPS)
Justify the relationship between the summative task and the statement of inquiry




Session 5: Taught curriculum

Review aims, objectives and requirements of the 
subject group
Consolidate understanding of task-specific 
clarifications using the criteria and the appropriate strands






Session 6: Taught curriculum

Design formative learning engagements that will
equip students with the required factual, procedural and conceptual knowledge that support the summative assessment task(s)






Session 7: Assessed curriculum

  • Standardize understanding of how to arrive at a 
judgment using a common assessment task and 
published criteria.
Discuss successful strategies for recording and 
reporting ongoing student progress in the subject.





Session 8: IDU planning
Collaborative planning from different different subject groups to plan & present the outline of an Interdisciplinary unit





Closing
Burning Questions & Where to next